56. Why Is “I Don’t Know” So Hard to Say?

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🗓️ 4 January 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Levitt and Dubner answer your FREAK-quently Asked Questions about certifying politicians, irrational fears, and the toughest three words in the English language.

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0:00.0	Hey, Levin, how's it going?
0:02.3	Hey, doing great.
0:03.6	You know how we take reader questions once in a while?
0:07.0	We call it frequently asked questions.
0:08.9	We ask people to send in their questions on our blog.
0:11.4	Are you up for answering if you have them right now?
0:13.3	Sure, I love to answer our reader's questions.
0:16.3	You sound a little corpsey today.
0:18.2	You feeling under the weather?
0:19.7	Yeah, I picked up the worst kind of cold.
0:21.8	I got a cold in India.
0:22.8	They have nasty colds in India.
0:24.9	Is that the worst kind of cold?
0:26.4	The Indian cold?
0:27.4	You've pretty bad weather.
0:28.4	I don't know.
0:29.4	I've never tried the Russian cold.
0:31.4	I bet that's pretty bad, too.
0:33.0	All right, but the cold notwithstanding, you're
0:34.7	ready to go.
0:35.6	I'm going to soldier on.
0:37.8	Here's a question from Thai spalding.
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